Heelside Magazine Australia

Premium Member Comment by Jacko on February 22, 2011 at 20:48

hey man i never said theres anything wrong with being gay...

Premium Member Comment by m0juu on February 22, 2011 at 21:28

nice legs, nice setup plus points
innappropriate footwear, minus points

Premium Member Comment by Rob Mcwhinnie on February 22, 2011 at 22:07

this board if off the hook, light as a feather, strong beautiful long and tanned, amaing curves and oh great to ride.

Premium Member Comment by blackwood on February 22, 2011 at 22:13

yeah im with bugs on this one. still a max wicked sick boom gnarly mag though.

Premium Member Comment by The Dave on February 22, 2011 at 22:29

Do _you_ come with the board?

Oh you!....teehehehe

 

I believe the word we might be looking for here is "crass".

Comment by Luan Berisha on February 23, 2011 at 4:33

Love it :D

Comment by Robbo on February 23, 2011 at 6:07

remember people, its not an image promoting safety or trying to show you how you slide a board. Its a contrast of sleek colour and gritty grey road. Its about showing the board looks hot, has sexy lines and curves and is showing it next to an equally hot set of legs that also shows sexy lines and curves. There are a million images of groms riding decks, they have absolutely no impact and are all the same. This is not about showing how the decks rides, its about showing you how wicked it looks. If this is discouraging to fat woman than thats just unlucky, womans magazines are loaded with this on every page, on every other page they include guys all buffed up. I would say all these mags (which are published and edited by woman) have a bit of a mortgage on crass although they don't call it that. This is just mixing it up a bit with a mag that is targeted almost exclusively at males else all you get is a magazine full of kid doing slide in helmet and pads (sorry luke I needed an example) you can already go to ASRA for that

 

Premium Member Comment by The Dave on February 23, 2011 at 6:48

I'm a bit puzzled by the logic here, Robbo. It seems to be "dumb women's mags (e.g. Cleo?) are filled with pictures of hot women, so Heelside should do the same". How does that work exactly? Are we promoting speedboards as some kind of fashion accessory for bimbos? If we are, is there another less lame sport I could join?...

Premium Member Comment by Jacko on February 23, 2011 at 7:28

oh.my.god why the hell is this discussion even taking place.

 

you people all sicken me with your retarted ways.

 

Thats a rad skateboard.

Shes got nice legs.

Heelside mag is rad.

 

thats all that needs to be said

Comment by Robbo on February 23, 2011 at 8:06

Just trying to work out what the nature of your offense to the ad is Dave, and therefore explaining what the intention of the image is. If you are saying it is crass are you saying it is crass to you or crass to other woman. my explanation is that the womans media industry don't see these types of things as crass.

 

So far people are indicating they don't like that:

• It is degrading to woman
• It lacks taste
• It does not promote safety
• She does not have shoes on to go skating in.

 

This is one image among 17,400 on ASRA and one image among 90 pages of a magazine. Its a magazine ad not a mission statement for a sporting association. If you are arguing that is enough to discourage you from longboarding than you aren't really utilising any deep thought on the matter. Longboarding exists and grows for a range of reasons, one of those is because there is a strong industry behind it.

 

The very interesting thing is there is a discussion occurring at the moment on another image on ASRA that makes this look like a church meeting. Maybe you guys should be involved in that

 

Here are a few other examples among many to discourage people from longboarding

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